As one of the main pillars of the ifo Institute's economic research, the ifo Business Survey has been conducted monthly since 1949, a year after the foundation of the ifo Institute. Since then, ifo has extended its survey activity by developing and administering additional business, expert, and...

In this paper, we study the predictive power of electricity consumption data for regional economic activity. Using unique weekly and monthly electricity consumption data for the second-largest German state, the Free State of Bavaria, we conduct a pseudo out-of-sample forecasting experiment for...

In der Konjunkturprognose des ifo Instituts spielt die Analyse und Vorhersage der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität nach Wirtschaftsbereichen eine wichtige Rolle. Grund hierfür ist die detaillierte Verfügbarkeit von Konjunkturindikatoren aus der ifo Konjunkturumfrage. Für Verwendungsaggregate wie...

In der Konjunkturprognose des ifo Instituts spielt die Analyse und Vorhersage der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität nach Wirtschaftsbereichen eine wichtige Rolle. Grund hierfür ist die detaillierte Verfügbarkeit von Konjunkturindikatoren aus der ifo Konjunkturumfrage. Für Verwendungsaggregate wie...

COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The announcement of nation-wide school closures on March 13...

COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The announcement of nation-wide school closures on March 13...

COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The announcement of nation-wide school closures on March 13...

COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The announcement of nation-wide school closures on March 13...